David A. Peck, James F. Saunders, William W. Webb and Denise Walter, will take on the title partner at Manning & Marder, K...
Twenty-six attorney Cotkin, Collins & Ginsburg is the latest law firm to move into the Las Vegas market, having opened an ...
Ventura County District Attorney Michael D. Bradbury has elected to leave office two months early and postpone his planned ret...
WASHINGTON - President Bush has nominated an Orange County Superior Court judge for the U.S. District Court for the Central Di...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal judge has paved the way for an American of Middle Eastern descent to go forward with his l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Vietnamese-Americans let out cheers and loud applause at the reading of the jury's first "not guilty" verdict ...
Appellate Practice
After the Fact, Court Thinks Twice About Ex Post Facto
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - School children may not be the only ones who learned a lesson about ex post facto while watching last week's t...
SACRAMENTO - After four years as California's attorney general and running for reelection in November, Democrat Bill Lockyer h...
LOS ANGELES - An elderly man mistaken for a burglary suspect, forced from his car by police at gunpoint, then handcuffed and t...
SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney for California's prison officials had a panel of federal appeals court judges on her side last we...
LOS ANGELES - Roman Catholic canon law may seem archaic, but it continues to color the legal debate swirling around priest mol...
Insurance
Insurer's Duty to Accept Reasonable Settlement Often Can Be Overlooked
By Columnist
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Gregory King - Policyholders often must battle their insurers for benefits owed to them und...
Zoning, Planning and Use
L.A. Nuisance Abatement Unit Offers New Solutions
By Columnist
Focus Column - Land Use - By Peter M. Weil and Elizabeth J. Giffin - What do you do when your client calls complaining about a...
In the era of Enron and WorldCom, Tyco and Global Crossing, companies are making sure they're prepared if securities regulator...
Forum Column - By Sharon J. Arkin - Marivel Rodriguez was only 28 years old and the mother of three children when she suffered...
Litigation
Church Structure Lies at Heart of Efforts to Assign Blame, Responsibility
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - The legal debate over canon law, depending on the facts of an individual case, often can be the first and last a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Recent legislation expanding the rights of criminal convicts won't immediately benefit those who say they were...
Forum Column - By James Acret - On the last day of the session, the Legislature imposed harsh new restrictions on homeowner co...
LOS ANGELES - A wife and her husband, both attorneys and graduates of Boalt Hall, have been charged with swindling the City of...
Administrative/Regulatory
Daily Journal Mailer Turned His Life Around
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Longtime Daily Journal production mailer Jose Luis Mendoza has died. He was 28. The cause of his death on Tuesda...
SAN FRANCISCO - A trio of new judges, including a former veteran from the state attorney general's office, was appointed to Ba...
SAN FRANCISCO - Finding ways to entice experienced judges to stay on the bench is one of the goals Los Angeles Superior Court ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Diego solo attorney Amy Vandeveld didn't know anything about a 1998 class action alleging that gas pumps a...
Construction
Law Aims to Prevent Damage of Vital Lines During Construction
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Bernard S. Kamine - Beneath every modern city is a complex web of water, sewer, storm-drain,...
LOS ANGELES - Some evidence produced for a confidential mediation may not always stay confidential, a state appellate court sa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Moore, best known as the baseball-hatted everyman searching for General Motors president Roger Smith i...
Forum Column - By David Rodriguez - Gov. Gray Davis signed SB1661 into law Sept. 23. It goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2004, and ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Service Will Forgo Arbitrations Unless Both Parties Are Willing
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Action Dispute Resolution Services will no longer handle arbitrations mandated by contract cla...
SAN JOSE - The incoming leadership of the Santa Clara County Bar Association plans to keep the organization growing by reachin...
LOS ANGELES - Santa Barbara newspaper publisher Wendy McCaw has been ordered to pay $14.8 million in damages, including $100,0...